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The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

420: How to Invest to Build Wealth and Financial Freedom for a Long Life You Love Living

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The key to learning anything we don't know is to choose to learn. Then, we need to find people who not only know what we want to acquire as knowledge, but also know how to teach it. Not only do they know how to teach it, but they sincerely want us to learn. 

As this episode/post finds you, we are all at different points along our life journey regarding our age, but we also, regardless of age, are at different points regarding our knowledge of investing. Wherever you are is exactly where you need to be to begin deepening your knowledge of what will set you free once you apply the skills and language of investing that Amanda Holden teaches in her book. 

Holden founded Invested Development after beginning her career in investment management. With degrees from UCLA in economics and communications, which make her a helpful guide as a teacher for the economics we want to learn, she transitioned into becoming one of the leading voices on women and money. Teaching in-person and online classes on money, her primary objective is to equip us with the tools and know-how so that finances don't prompt fear, but instead eradicate it and give us freedom. 

"To be a Rich Old Lady is to be rich in life, options, experiences, and especially love." —Amanda Holden

In today's episode, I'm going to share with you seven guiding truths as a way to lay the foundation of where to begin and how to maintain steady progress to becoming rich. So that you aren't looking into your older years and fearing or wondering how you will survive, but instead are eager (but not rushing) for them to arrive because you know you will be thriving.  

~Find the Show Notes for this episode on The Simply Luxurious Life blog - https://thesimplyluxuriouslife.com/podcast420 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the simple sophisticate, where in 2014, this podcast premiered, and now in its 12th season,

0:10.0

the show continues to focus on the same principles it was founded upon, the art of living a life of quality over quantity.

0:18.0

Topics range from creating an everyday life you love living, strengthening mindfulness

0:22.9

practices, building a capsule wardrobe, preparing seasonally delicious meals, traveling and exploring

0:29.2

France and Britain, and living life to the fullest as you courageously honor your true self,

0:34.8

because living well really is quite simple once we know the skills of

0:39.3

cultivating contentment. I'm your host, Shannon Ables, and whether you're listening while

0:44.7

you're on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or art studio, in route or returning from

0:50.4

that dream destination, or sitting down and savoring a hot cuppa or a cafe au lae. Thank you for

0:57.1

tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 420th episode of the simple sophisticate. Today we're

1:05.3

going to talk about money and specifically we're going to talk about investing for financial freedom. But before I get to what

1:13.8

we are going to dive into and what inspired today's episode, I want to give you a hint at

1:18.8

our petit pleasure, which is a Francophile find brand new series. I am absolutely enjoying it.

1:25.5

There's a modern take. There's fun.

1:28.1

There's mystery.

1:30.2

Beautiful setting.

1:31.5

A setting we haven't seen before really on any of the series that are often shared on this podcast and on the blog.

1:38.9

I think you might like it.

1:40.8

And I also want to share that at the end of today's episode, I'm going to share with you

1:44.4

the trailer for my new book, which is coming out in September of this year, 2006. Yep,

1:51.1

last weekend, I shared the full reveal of my fourth book titled Savoring the Sojourn, contentment

1:59.7

through the seasons as you unearth your masterpiece.

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